[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Unpublished Cam Lejeune (NC) cancer study

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unpublished study finds elevated cancer rates at US military base

By M.B. Pell
Reuters
November 10, 2023 

Cancer and mortality studies conducted by a U.S. health agency have found elevated cancer rates in military and civilian personnel who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune, a major American military base, an epidemiologist familiar with the research says.

A report on the findings was submitted in April, but the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has yet to release it, angering people who say they got sick drinking tainted water at the Marine base near Jacksonville, N.C., from 1953 through 1987.

The study increases the known number of cancers linked to contaminated drinking water at the base, according to Kenneth Cantor, a former National Cancer Institute epidemiologist who has read the study. The findings also provide the strongest evidence to date that the contaminated water caused cancer, Cantor said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/unpublished-study-finds-elevated-cancer-rates-us-military-base-2023-11-10/

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Lenny Siegel
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